VILPPU KILJUNEN is the most successful opera stage director of the new generation in Finland. Parallel to his music studies at the Helsinki Conservatory, he studied musicology, drama and theoretical philosophy

VILPPU KILJUNEN's great break through came with Gounod's Faust at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 1999. Ever since he has worked a lot in Finland and Scandinavia. His main works at the Finnish National